AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Xeon E5-520

Compare AMD FX 6-Core Black Edition 3 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-520

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$ 50.00

$ 24.60

$ 25.40 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1799 points

7% slightly better overall score

1676 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points

20% slightly better gaming score

2485 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

1418 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

1363 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

34% slightly higher Blender score

21.48 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

1691 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

385 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

1430 points

0.28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

362 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

54% significantly higher clock speed

2.26 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

50% significantly higher turbo speed

2.53 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

80 W

18% slightly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

499% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

757th of 1,089

780th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 6-Core Black Edition

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

FX-6300 vs Xeon E5-520 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the FX-6300 beats the Xeon E5-520 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-520 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-520 has slightly more cores than the FX-6300. Indeed, the Xeon E5-520 has 4 cores compared to 3 cores found in the FX-6300. Despite this, the FX-6300 has more threads than the Xeon E5-520. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-6300 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-520. In terms of cache, the FX-6300 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E5-520. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the FX-6300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.